Pengaruh Podcast Terhadap Pemahaman Mendengarkan Dari Mahasiswa Semester Dua Program Studi Bahasa Inggris Di Universitas Islam Riau

Ismail, Syofianis and Oktasari, Marhamahand Lola (2016) Pengaruh Podcast Terhadap Pemahaman Mendengarkan Dari Mahasiswa Semester Dua Program Studi Bahasa Inggris Di Universitas Islam Riau. Jurnal Pendidikan, 07 (01). pp. 44-51.

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Abstract

Podcasting is a multimedia that provides a lot of authentic listening materials and it can be downloaded on the internet freely. Nowadays, podcasting has become an alternative way of learning listening which can give positive effects towards students’ listening comprehension. Using podcast as a medium for learning opens a new opportunity in language learning context. This research was carried out at the English Study Program, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education (FKIP), Islamic University of Riau Pekanbaru.The objective of this research was to find out the effect of using podcast in English listening process on the ability of students’ listening comprehension. Some 31 students of the second semester were taken as the sample of the research using Purposive Random Sampling technique. The instrument used to collect the data was a listening test taken from TOEFL IBT. The test consisted of six topics with 30 questions. The effectiveness of the podcast could be seen from the improvement of the students’ listening comprehension by comparing the average scores of both pre-test and post-test.After the test results were analyzed, it was discovered that the mean score of the post-test was greater than the mean score of the pre-test (36.38 for the post-test and 27.80 for the pre-test) significantly at the level of 1%. Therefore, the null hypothesis was rejected and the alternative hypothesis was accepted. It means that using podcast could give a positive effect to the students’ listening comprehension.

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